View more of Elliott Landy's photos at:

www.landyvision.com

Born in 1942, Elliott began photographing the anti-Vitenam war movement and the underground music culture in New York City in 1967. He photographed many of the underground rock and roll superstars, both backstage and onstage, from 1967 to 1969.

His celebrated images of Bob Dylan and The Band, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Joan Baez, Van Morrison and many others documented the music scene during that classic rock period, culminating with the 1969 Woodstock Festival, of which he was the official photographer.

The music and its message of freedom and unity inspired him tremendously. Landy’s book, Woodstock Vision, The Spirit of a Generation, contains over 450 photographs and captures the events of the sixties surrounding the famous Festival. His infamous photo of Bob Dylan, used as the cover for the album, “Nashville Skyline”, is one of his most recognizable images.